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In Python 3.3+, given a class with a method, the class has an instance variable, which is a simple object() object (we'll call it self.FALSE). How do I use that instance variable as a default value ...

I'm a bit confused about using *args.
I want to write a function that takes a variable number of arguments but can still use the advantage of defining a predefined value for a keyword argument.
But ...

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I've been playing with MacRuby, and noticing how it extends Ruby to be able to handle the Smalltalk-like method (or message) signatures of Objective-C. At first glance, I thought that it looked a lot ...

Is it possible to have named parameters with default values in groovy? My plan is to make a sort of object factory, which can be called with no arguments at all in order to get an object with default ...